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  Berkeley Springs Walking Tour: Trump & Trump Law Offices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The English Tudor stone structure that houses the law offices of Trump and Trump was built in 1939 after razing the 19th century summer cottage of Warner Washington.
The grounds encompass three lots, one of which was purchased in the original land auction by Samuel Washington.
In 1858 Goff or Rose cottage was razed from the section facing Mercer Street in 2000 after serving for years as an apartment building.
www.berkeleysprings.com /walkingtour/4trump.html   (105 words)

  
 www.usacycling.org -- Tour of Missouri part of USA Cycling Pro Tour
In its initial year, the Tour of Missouri will be anointed one of the nation’s top four stage races behind the prestigious Tour de Georgia and AMGEN Tour of California races, providing a historic landmark for the sport with four major domestic stage races on the inaugural USA Cycling Professional Tour.
The Tour of Missouri has been slated as one of only four stage races in the newly-created USA Cycling Pro Tour, which will highlight the top multi-day races in America.
It currently is the event management group for the Amgen Tour of California and Tour de Georgia, as well as the USA Cycling Professional Championships.
www.usacycling.org /news/user/story.php?id=2608   (1023 words)

  
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For Tour fans, the point is simply to be there, not just for social reasons (as is the case in small villages en route) but in order to share in some measure the lived space of the riders during their moments of suffering.
As the riders made their way over the fearsome col de Tourmalet, the last hurdle before the Luz, all eyes, binoculars, and telescopic camera lenses were trained on this impressive publicity gimmick from Antenne 2, the official channel of the Tour.
The Tour de France is already being practiced differently by its fans, and the transformation of cycling culture is likely to continue even if it doesn't pay off in the end for the sponsors.
www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v1n1-english-vacation.txt   (1728 words)

  
 Greg LeMond - Search View - MSN Encarta
In 1992 he won the Tour de Trump (now the Tour DuPont), a stage race held annually in the northeastern United States.
LeMond is best known for his performance in the grueling Tour de France cycling race.
Nevertheless, LeMond continued cycling competitively and was able to compete in the 76th Tour de France in 1989, a 23-day race from Luxembourg to Paris that covered more than 3200 km (more than 2000 mi).
encarta.msn.com /text_761553388__1/Greg_LeMond.html   (347 words)

  
 Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
As we all know now, LeMond went on to win three Tours de France (1986, 1989, and 1990), another World Championship title (1989), and numerous other high profile events, despite the fact that his career was perilously divided by a terrible hunting accident that left him 20 minutes away from bleeding to death in 1987.
He also showed remarkable durability and consistency in the grand tours, finishing 5th overall in the Giro d’Italia and 4th overall in the Tour de France, along with winning the crown jewel of climbing stages - Alpe D’Huez.
He also moved to Tuscany, where he started a bike touring company called Cinghiale Cycling Tours, Inc., where the emphasis is on discovering the genuine culture of Tuscany.
www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=6847   (1227 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | The Armstrong effect
The Tour de Trump and its successor Tour DuPont — which Armstrong won twice before being diagnosed with cancer — took the sport around the country before fizzling out by 1997 in a dispute over sponsorship.
One key U.S. event is the Tour de Georgia, a six-day stage race in April that drew an estimated 748,000 spectators in its second year — undoubtedly buoyed by the fact that Armstrong and the U.S Postal Service team raced and won.
Chauner said the tour hopes to run a stage race in California as early as next year and expand its schedule to eight or nine events.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595079983,00.html   (765 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Trump Race Slated to Hit City
The second annual Tour de Trump, America's largest bike race, sponsored by--you guessed it--real estate mogul Donald Trump, will whip through Cambridge during the race's final leg toward Boston on Sunday May 13.
Moot said that the Tour de Trump, "doesn't excite me in the least" and added that it is unfair for Trump to "impinge on the recreation of 5000 people" who use the park.
Aaron Marinari, the race services manager for the Tour de Trump, said yesterday that he was not aware of any conflicts with Cambridge Parks.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=176351   (431 words)

  
 How TV Cameras Follow the Tour de Georgia | Operation Gadget
I wanted to find out how they captured the pictures of the Dodge Tour de Georgia that are seen on television and on the big screen at the finish line.
The process used to transmit the TV signals from the motorcycles to the stage finish is similar to process used in the Tour de France which was documented last summer on Operation Gadget.
Greg Peterson said during Stage 13 of the 2004 Tour de France, his motorcycle was hit by a Team Gerolsteiner support vehicle and forced off the road.
www.operationgadget.com /2005/04/how_tv_cameras_.html   (880 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
The Irishman was part of the successful campaign to bring the start of the 1998 Tour de France to his home country and, since then, has worked as race director on events such as the Tour de Langkawi and Tour of Britain.
I was at the Tour Down Under last year and I was, naturally, at the Tour de Langkawi as well.
The last really big race they had was the Tour de Trump, which was a 10-day race, and they have nothing to come near that since.
www.cyclingnews.com /riders/2005/interviews/?id=pat_mcquaid05_2   (2288 words)

  
 Tour DuPont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held between 1991 and 1996.
It was intended to become a North American cycling event similar in format and prestige to the Tour de France.
Before the creation of the Tour DuPont, a similar race sponsored by Donald Trump and known as the Tour de Trump was run in 1989 and 1990.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tour_DuPont   (388 words)

  
 The Professor's Vent: Number Six?
Watching him in person at the old Tour de Trump and Tour Dupont, I was a fan during this early period and shocked and depressed when he got cancer.
The tour is a three-week bicycle race that pushes the limits of human physical performance.
To win two tours in a row is as impressive as winning two super bowls, World Series or NBA playoffs in a row.
psychonomic.blogspot.com /2004/06/number-six.html   (570 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Le Grand LeMond
And Laurent Fignon, the two-time Tour winner who was the overall leader going into the final stage, was arrogant, too contemptuously Gallic to be whipped on his home turf by an American in the bicentennial year of the French Revolution.
But the Tour de France is an event unlike any other, and LeMond felt invigorated in a way he had not been since his accident.
It is an annual event on the Tour, a punishing spectacle to which some 250,000 spectators travel, waiting along the roadside as long as 24 hours to exhort the riders up the 6,000-foot, 15-kilometer climb.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/1998/tourdefrance/tourdefrancearchive/tour2.html   (6232 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
Julich is a strong rider in a time trial, and this spring at the Tour Méditerranéen and Paris-Nice stage races in France, he seems to have rediscovered his climbing legs, two components critical to overall success in a stage race.
The Tour de Georgia's April time slot appeals to Julich, who this year will also make a return to the USPRO Championships in Philadelphia in June, hoping to win the stars and stripes jersey of national champion.
Between the Tour de Georgia and USPRO events, he will return to his Reno, Nevada, home for five weeks to take a break from racing and spend time training at altitude.
www.cyclingnews.com /riders/2004/interviews/?id=bobby_julich04   (1315 words)

  
 Tour of the US? (Part 1) - Cycle-Licious
Having a Tour of the US in March and/or April would not be possible, as that is when the spring classics take place.
The Tour de Trump is a perfect example, once sponsorship was lost, Dupont stepped in and kept the race here for a few more years, once sponsorship was lost from them, the race inevitably folded.
The Tour de Toona website has some good numbers on cycling demographics, but the perception seems to be that few people in the USA watch competetive cycling events.
www.cyclelicio.us /2006/02/tour-of-us-part-1.html   (833 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Armstrong: Tour de France is entire focus
But make no mistake – this Tour is simply another step along the way to the real Tour, the one that ends with a triumphant ride down the Champs-Elysees.
That's how he wound up at the Tour de Georgia, a 2-year-old event that hopes to be a catalyst for bringing big-time cycling back to the United States.
There have been a few attempts in the past – the Coors Classic, the Tour de Trump, the Tour du Pont – but all faded away with a collective yawn from the American sporting public.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20040419-1636-cyc-armstrongsquest.html   (868 words)

  
 Bobke Strut........."Ignore Alien Orders"
That, of course, would be the Donald Trump bankrolled Tour de Trump back in 1989 won by 7-Eleven hardguy Dag-Otto Lauritzen.
I think the reason that events such as the Red Zinger Bicycle Classic, the Coors Classic, the Tour de Trump, and the Tour DuPont had a relatively short shelf life is that the title sponsors were not really invested in the long-term health of professional cycling.
For Donald Trump, it was sheer vanity coupled with the appealing insanity of shutting down streets from Albany to Atlantic City (and particularly Manhattan) for a bike race.
www.unc.edu /~hymas/2006/03/mad-money.html   (666 words)

  
 Tour de las Americas
In order to add depth to the schedule and more benefits to our members, the Tour de las Americas will participate as a special guest at other top events in the region.
Such are the cases of the Trump Brazil Open (October 24-30 at Sahuipe, Brazil), the Torneo de Maestros de Argentina (Oct 31-Nov 6 at Olivos GC in Buenos Aires) and the Roberto de Vicenzo Classic (November 7-13 at San Eliseo GC in Buenos Aires).
The event is organized by the Asociacion Argentina de Golf, which has granted the TLA a special invitation for its top 15 international players.
www.tourdelasamericas.com /read.php?id=592   (338 words)

  
 Reflections & Implications for US Races (Part II of II)
These dollars and audiences are peanuts compared to the Tour de France or even the Tour of Georgia.
The Tour de France goes to the extreme by having the "Friends of the Tour de France" organization to help provide a constant flow of volunteers (see Tour de France travelogues).
In my 15 years living in the NYC metro area, this by far was the largest cycling promotion in the metro area, far exceeding the crowds gathered for the start of the Tour de Trump in front of the Trump Plaza in 1989.
mysite.verizon.net /vzeon5pm/id22.html   (2344 words)

  
 Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More :: Tour of Missouri joins US pro bicycle racing schedule for 2007   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Move over Tour de Georgia and Tour of California -- the Tour of Missouri is joining the ranks of the USA Cycling Professional Tour as an internationally sanctioned bicycle race.
The Tour de Georgia draws upwards of 800,000 and had an estimated economic impact of $26 million in 2006.
Medalist Sports of Tyrone, Georgia, is the main organizer of the race; it also handles the Tour of California and the Tour de Georgia.
www.bikingbis.com /blog/_archives/2006/10/18/2424990.html   (682 words)

  
 To   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1989 Tour de Trump On a rainy, windy evening, unknown American cyclist Thomas Craven stole the leader's jersey in the inaugural Tour de Trump, the predecessor to the Tour DuPont.
Lauritzen posted a time far superior to Vanderaerden, and thus won the first Tour in the shadows of sponsor Donald Trump's casino on the boardwalk in the famous gambling city.
His team, which included current star Evgeni Berzin, the 1994 Tour of Italy winner, worked diligently to retain the leader's jersey until seasoned professional Raul Alcala of PDM pulled away from Bobrik on a hellaciously steep climb called "Devil's Kitchen" in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains.
www.gateserver.net /Topicdetails.aspx?Topicid=2738&name=&catid=537&topicname=Tour_de_Trump   (966 words)

  
 American Cyclists quiz -- free game
Greg Lemond set a record for the smallest margin of victory in the 1989 edition of the Tour de France, a mere 8 seconds.
Racers often complain that the Tour de France is getting faster every year, making it harder to recover quickly enough to race.
In the 1990 Tour de France, Lemond was faced with an unexpected challenge.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=186976   (321 words)

  
 Active.com | le Tour de France | James Raia: 2006/07/02 - 2006/07/08
James Raia, co-author of Tour de France For Dummies, is a journalist from Sacramento, Calif., who's covering his 10th Tour de France for several print, online and broadcast media outlets.
Fast-forward to this year's Tour de France and Rouille, 30, and Nardin, 27, now the parents of a 2 1/2-month old son, decided to return the gesture.
the entourage of the Tour de France was scheduled to arrive.
blogs.active.com /raia/2006_07_02_archive.html   (1707 words)

  
 Ivanka & Lance's Brief Romance | Break-Up, Ivanka Trump, Lance Armstrong, Divorced : People.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Trump, 24, is vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization.
Armstrong's rep says there was no romance, and a pal says Trump hasn't seen the seven-time Tour de France winner in a month.
Trump herself told PEOPLE on Monday, "I have tremendous respect for Lance and all he has accomplished.
people.aol.com /people/article/0,26334,1035928_1541662,00.html   (358 words)

  
 James Raia Communications - Tour de France '06 Postcard: George Hincapie, All Grown Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For the past few years, there were two reporters iTour de France press rooms who still wrote their articles on portable typewriters.
I'm not quite in that category, but I realized yesterday I've been around the sport for a while when George Hincapie was speaking at the Tour de France press conference.
He was Lance Armstrong's dutiful teammate for seven years in the Tour de France.
www.byjamesraia.com /article.php?articleID=128   (588 words)

  
 Stories Tagged 'tour de france' » Netscape.com
The Italian was withdrawn from the Tour de France days before the start amid rumours he would be implicated in Spain's "Operation Puerto" doping investigating.
Sports – If the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency formally charges Tour de France winner Floyd Landis with violations of its drug policy, the cyclist will take the unprecedented step of asking that his hearing be opened to the public, according to a member of his defense team.
Sports – This could be the first time that a Tour de France rider is stripped of his title.
www.netscape.com /tag/tour+de+france   (998 words)

  
 Tour-de-Trump - Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling
Trump himself was looking for an Apprentice on two wheels.
It was the early 90’s and Donald Trump decided to stamp his name on of all things a bike race.
One of the most memorable scenes was not Gert Jan Theunisse climbing up Devil’s Kitchen climb somewhere in NY, but of this hapless accident.
velochimp.com /category/tour-de-trump   (506 words)

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